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it is the inevitable outcome. i believe in 15 years 40% of the workforce will be a robot ,it is the future like the invention of the weaving machine and the implantation of some sort of universal income

This is great. Can we now reverse mass immigration?

It could be more of a dystopia than utopia. Also once again shows the less edifying side of Elon as he complains about not being able to vacuum up as much of the value of the company as he wants whilst talking about n treating people as disposable objects.

Per Elon, universal high income…human still can choose to work, but as a hobby. Reminds me the movie, ‘wall-E’.

Hi Dave. I am a new EV owner (Smart #1 ... love it so far). My one and only public charging session two days ago wasn't a great experience. It was a GeniePoint fast charger installed in a Morrisons car park. I needed to download an App on the spot, and was eventually able to get it to work via the contactless display. The annoying bit was it said it was going to deduct £35 from my account and then re-imburse what I didn't use in 30 days!! What is that about? And is it typical? Why can't we just pay for what we use similar to buying petrol?

In the UK we are seeing a massive reduction on PCH rentals as it's the best way to reduce stock levels without distressing the true up-front cost. It also kicks the Residual Value can down the road for a few years. With supply now exceeding demand AND the very real insurgence of the Chinese brands into the UK market this means no more spiralling RPI-busting RRP increases. Hence the move to the much vaunted Agency plan has been shelved by most OEM's (Mercedes excepted, for now) as we now enter a likely prolonged and sustained 'Push' market. The Covid days of no discounts, limited supply are long gone and will be dramatically hastened further when the effect of the ZEV legislation manifests itself later this year. BEV's will drop dramatically in cost and all ICE cars will suffer from OEM reduced supply accordingly.

My last understanding was that once all manufacturing has been replaced with robots everyone will get a universal income from the sale of these products. How ultimately sustainable that would be is another question.

The only way the whole economy doesn't collapse with robots and AI replacing jobs is if either companies are collectively owned but the people, the robots are owned by the people or if there is UBI.

A robot will soon need a lift in a self driving car

Cheers Dave

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Yes just a little scary for the future of the people

Sales are down because the prices of vehicles is too inflated. You can't even buy a decent used car (EV, gas, diesel pick your poison). Are running historically higher than ever before the pandemic. We bought an SUV for 4500.00 you can't even touch that same vehicle for less than 10k now. Huge difference.

Afternoon mate

The Cybertruck isn't even available in your country, it doesn't pass safety standards. Musk fired the entire supercharger department while expecting to expand it to other car manufacturers. Remember as well, most of our electrical powergrid is older than I am (53), and in a lot of countries they still burn coal for power. All of that said, I'm not hating on EV's, I think it's a cool concept, I just don't think the world is properly set up to support them yet and the battery technology needs to come further before they're viable for real world usage.

Mark up and profit are two different concepts.

I look at destination charging as a convenience that I am willing to pay for.

Surely the business model for the use of robots like this is to have a 24/7 production line for manufacturing rather than having robots clean etc. Similarly stock takes would be fully automated so there wouldn’t need to be any robots here. Beyond this, any improvements in the process would be automatically implemented throughout the whole robot workforce thus increasing efficiencies further. If self driving does come to fruition then there wouldn’t be a need for humans to drive at all. All of this sounds great but we should be planning for the societal shift that would be required to find a place for humans to live better, and this should start right now.

There eventually will have to be a Universal Wage funded by business taxes, to replace the displaced workers wages.

Could it be I Robot in few years. I hope all robot will be like Kryten in Red Dwart or Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guid to Galaxy. Could it be Elon Musk working 120 hours week be replaced with Robot that can work 168 hours week. Lets hope robots never get guns.

No, Dave, they're not

High interest rates and cost of living crises, not a surprise people aren’t paying out for a new car

At least it's not a charging video😂

There needs to be a yearly tax on robots. So to give a living wage to all the humans who are out of work.

Parts and repair costs...

If people don't have work then people don't have money to buy stuff. They will be killing future sales then where do they get their money

Battery swap or wireless charging may also work…

What does it say about owners of EVs if they need lessons on how to change them. When I was 17 I bought a 1936 Ford V8 & filled it up the first day without a lesson on how to do it.

So with robots manufacturing could remain in Europe USA etc

I put this into the "i will believe it when i see it" catagory. Along side fusion power Not saying that it will never happen but...... We have been told this for decades , but the reality is there are more people in work here in the uk at least, than ever before, both in absolute numbers and as percentage of the population. The real problem is that humans are so cheap that even full time jobs often don't pay enough to live on.I Far more inwork benifits paid out now than unemployment benifits.

My comment got into replies, a robot must have moved it lol

Until we get a universal wage replacing swathes of workers with robots will be difficult for governments to manage. All manner of social problems will surface. Having a job of some kind is important to many people for a variety of reasons not least mental health. I recall images from the Great Depression of working men hanging around street corners with broken spirits and full of despair. Can we allow free enterprise to throw millions on the scrap heap? Will politicians and organised Labour go along with this if it wrecks society as we have know it, even as unfair as it often is. Will it bring greater happiness or make things worse than we have experienced since Brexit and 14 years of Tory misrule.? The Jury is going to be out for many years.

With the ZEV mandate the dealers will be more likely be forced to give larger discounts on EVs

Pity they couln't put them robots to work on Tesla Preston South or Tesla Gretna (M74 & Caledonia Park ) unfinished new superchargers

Not yet.

What will humans do? Universal credit will increase.

Would you buy one?

When everything is done by robots how will people be employed to earn money to live?

People already being replaced with robots. That sounds like scaremongering at the moment. Robots are indeed improving but 2025 is the earliest.

It's irrelevant if electric is cheaper or not, the world transport is moving to electric and governments will find a way of getting as much revenue as they need from the motorists. People have to get through their thick heads that diesel and petrol have to be reduced to a minimum.

Be careful what you wish for Dave, your TH-cam blog could soon replace you with a Tesla Bot, some may jest that it already has.😉

Robots are not more reliable, they are more consistent and over time they get faster and faster for the same consistency. Apply statistics to your product you then end up with better quality. Over time though, by displacing workers with robots you create a class of people who will never be able to work! Look at it like this: be a Janitor.. There is a robot for that Be miner.. there is a robot for that Be taxi driver.. there is FSD/Robots for that Be food delivery agent... There is a robot for that Be a cook.. yep a robot for that Be a doctor.. AI and robots take over Be a lawyer.. AI and databases will make your case and decide within seconds and you have no recourse. Finally be a ditch digger... sorry mate a robot does that quicker than you It would not be to far a stretch to have robot COPs like in the movies... so much scarier if that happens. .... you get the hint about where robots and AI can lead to. This could end up so much like the movie Elysium... a society far away from the lesser class (the movies shows them in space but a gated area would be equivalent today) where robots do everything for the rich while the rest are effectively slaves to them.

Don't forget, Elon will need to hire lots of humans to operate the telepresence suits on which his robots depend!

Dave, time to brush up on your logic skills: 3:57 That Ford loses $120,000 per Mach E does not logically imply "the more they sell, the more they lose," as you claim at 3:57. You need to decompose the $180,000 cost into fixed and marginal. Your claim is only true if marginal cost exceeds marginal revenue. 4:41 600 stock days does not logically imply that some stock is from 2022. Numerical example: if 60,000 of a model were in stock and an average of 100 sold per day over the past 45 days (the customary interval used in the US auto sales analysis) that's 600 stock days. Those 60,000 units need not have been been produced in 2022, or even 2023 for that matter. Perhaps it's time to properly think through your videos rather than rushing them out every day. Quality over quantity, please.

would be interesting to understand what the payback period for a charger is... what kind of usage does it need ? Its an interesting topic.

The charging factor - broken, waiting line, expensive - is putting some people off buying an EV right now. Probably waiting for better longer range batteries.

The only way i can justifie owning my ev is at home i have an ev charger thats connected to solar only, so its free in the summer months. Last year 2023 i saved £794. As that would have been the cost at my tariff.

I dont get 7p i pay 28p at home. I cannot find an ev chsrger that would cost. Me 40p per kwh.

Hi Dave. Just to add a wrinkle to the mix, you mentioned that 100% of CCS2-equiped cars will be able to connect to V4 Tesla Superchargers, but I don't think that this is universal. The reason for this is not Tesla's fault. For example - the original 53.5KWh MG5 EV Standard Range cannot charge at specifically opened Tesla V3 chargers, while the later Long Range models (including the latest face-lift models) can reportedly onlyl do so once they have been given a cost-free firmware update in order to be compatible with Tesla's charging protocols. The only way to make the MG5 standard range models compatible with the Tesla charger protocols would be to upgrade the built-in charge controller, which according to some MG5-related forum posts I have read would be at a cost of around £800 to owners. I have not been able to track down a designated V4 charter to test my MG5 SR, so what you said might still hold true for the V4's specifically. So - unfortunately it's not all plain sailing for MG5 (and possibly MG ZS EV) owners, but at least it seems that MG4 owners are well supported. It would be interesting to know whether other EV manufacturers have similar issues with charging at Tesla chargers.Thanks for all your hard work, I enjoy every video. Regards, Jan Henkins.

It's because people who bought EV's 6 years ago don't need a new car thanks to software updates and they cost so little to run. Fossil cars aren't selling because people are keeping them until EV's are available for an affordable price.